... The ancient chronical said about the colour rings around the Sun and the Moon, about three suns in the sky, light columns, bright lightning, different "comets" rushing to the Earth, moving among the stars or round the Earth with the sky. All these occurrences may be divided into three categories: one that occur in the near or far space, processes going on in the Earth atmosphere under the influence of cosmic factors and at last the occurrences connected with the Earth atmosphere. ... Rainbow . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... RSC Energia is the prime manned space flight organization in the Russian rocket and space industry, responsible for the development of the ISS Russian Segment, its integration into the Space Station and its operation, including development and operation of the principal modules of the Segment (Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, Nauka etc.), manufacturing, launch and operation of Soyuz TMA and Progress M...

... The First (Experimental) International Astronomy Olympiad . The following olympic problems were proposed for the participants on the theoretical part: Grades 8-10 . ... Why is it sometimes better to use a small telescope in orbit around the Earth than it is to use a large telescope on a mountain top? ... What will an observer looking to the Moon through the telescope see? ... Paper with a drown circle and table of maximal elongations of Mercury and Venus had been done for participants. ...

OBSERVATIONS OF COORBITAL SATELLITES OF SATURN Emel'yanov N., Varfolomeev M. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, e-mail : emelia@sai.msu.ru Institut de MИcanique CИleste et de Calcul des иphИmИrides, Paris, e-mail : emelia@imcce.fr Abstract. To improve the orbital parameters and masses of coorbital satellites of Saturn, Janus and Epimetheus, new observations of these satellites are necessary. ... IN: Saturn. ... New observations of Saturn's coorbital satellites" - Icarus. ...

... It was with this spirit that Norman Oberle suggested that area amateurs should have the benefit of a large aperture (25 inches or larger) telescope with sufficient focal length for excellent visual work. ... Norm Oberle and Jim Thomas spent 2,000 hours grinding and polishing to work the mirror into an oblate spheroid. ... Norm worked with Jim Thomas in a basement workshop. ... The Richland club is situated in the Hidden Hollow camp ground, and has long held meetings in the clubhouse on the grounds. ...

Planet Earth only came outside to watch the nightfall with the rain I heard you making patterns rhyme like some new romantic looking for the tv sound you'll see I'm right some other time look now, look all around , there's not sign of life voices, another sound , can you hear me now? this is planet earth , you're looking at planet earth bop bop bop bop bop ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Earth penumbra effects on AES motion taking into account the refraction and the extinction of the light in the atmosphere A. M. Fominov Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia The perturbing acceleration F of the Artificial Earth Satellite (AES) due to the solar ... In step 1, the table of the shadow function values with the angle distances d between the solar disk and the earth disk edge may be calculated. ...

... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

Proposal Identification No.: R2087 Date Received: 2005 ­Feb­01 23:45:01 Technical Page Proposal Type: Regular General Category : Planetary Radar Observation Category : Solar System Total Time Requested: 87.5 Hours Proposal Title: Radar imaging of seven near­ Earth asteroids in June­September 2005 ABSTRACT: We propose delay­Doppler radar imaging, physical modeling, satellite searches, and orbit refinement of near­ Earth ... Maybe Part of the observing run. ...

Computer Ephemeris. Ephemeris for physical observations of the planets. Explanations. Each row of the table contains for date specified at 0h of Time Terrestrial Dynamical: . ... position angle of axis of planetary rotation (degrees) - 'P', . ... illumanated part of the disk - k, . ... position angle of disk point with minimal illumination (degrees), . longitude of central meridian of the disk (degrees) - 'merid1' - system I and so... phase correction (degrees). ...

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... The Zodiacal light seen above the eastern horтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: The Zodiacal light seen above the eastern horizon nearly two hours before sunrise . Description: It is produced by light scattered from interplanetary dust near the plane of rotation of the planets around the sun. ... The Zodiacal light seen above the eastern horizon nearly two hours before sunrise It is produced by light scattered from interplanetary dust near the plane of rotation of the planets around the sun. ...

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

Asteroid 2055 YU55 passes close by Earth; how close did it get? ... As Elizabeth Flock reported: An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier missed Earth by only 200,000 miles as it flew by Tuesday night the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years Asteroid 2005 YU55, as it has been dubbed, streaked by at about 30,000 mph, but some scientists and lucky amateur astronomers caught a glimpse in their telescopes, where they saw strange structures on the asteroid\u2019s dark-colored surface. ...

Irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process and temporal variations of geopotential Valery Bondarenko, Vadim Perepelkin s The observed irregular phenomena in the Earth Pole oscillation process are very variety. ... These phenomena indicated in the IERS data are the "abnormal" fluctuation of the Earth Pole coordinates which owing to changing of the geodynamical parameters gives negative result in interpolation and forecast of the first approximation mathematical model. ... Fig. ...

In ancient times the solar system was thought to be the whole Universe, so the study of planetary motions was cosmology. ... The planets other than the Moon and Sun generally move West to East through the stars, but occasionally stop and move in the opposite direction ( retrograde motion). In order to explain the retrograde motion of the planets, the geocentric model of the Solar System shown above puts the planets on small circles called epicycles . ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS09 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Constraining the magnetic fields of transiting exoplanets through ground-based near-UV observations PI: Jake Turner OBSERVER(S): Jake Turner (Graduate Student: University of Virginia) Apurva Oza (Graduate Student: University of Virginia) Robin Leiter (Undergraduate Student ... The magnetic field of a transiting exoplanet can be constrained by observing asymmetries in their near-UV light curves (Vidotto, Jardine Helling 2011a; Vidotto et al. ...

... Space flight . ... Space camp . Space Hotel . ... The aim of the Space Camp program is to promote achievements of Russian manned cosmonautics and space exploration. ... One of the main tasks of the Space Camp program is to facilitate cooperation with educational institutions in Russia and abroad in proliferation and mastering of acquired knowledge in a form of space-related quizzes, contests, scientific experiments, on line- and videoconferences. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics Struct Reference . ... More... #include < Planet.hpp > . ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting), if lighting is used and GLSL is supported. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting and shadowing). ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. bool Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics::loadPlanetShaders . ...